IN THIS MOMENT
Black Widow
(Atlantic)
Nothing really new from these guys… female fronted commercialized “metal”  a lot of electronic types of sounds going on too.

SIENA ROOT
Pioneers
(Cleopatra)
A 70’s hard rock throwback.  A bit like some Deep Purple and Thin Lizzy type stuff.  A cool groove and catchy songs, but metal?  Nope.

KROKODIL
Nachash
(Spinefarm)
Pantera-like groove metal mixed up with some melodic death and stoner metal.  Pretty cool stuff.

MONSTER MAGNET
Milking The Stars: a re-imagining of Last Patrol
Napalm Records
This is a “reimagining” of their last album… not remixed, re-recorded in a more 60s/70’s rock vibe.

Sonata Arctica
Eclipted (Revisited)
Metalville Records
15 years since their debut album… how about a reissue?  Nawww… Just re-record it from scratch… So yeah, you have a bit more of a modern production and feel of their 15 year old songs. Plus it’s cool to throw back to the earlier days of cool power metal.

While Heaven Wept
Suspended At Aphelion
Metalville Records
An epic doom prog metal type thing.  Clean vox, proggy stuff, black metal growls, power metal stuff, but overall, there’s a lot of downtime, slower melodic almost power ballad type stuff.

The Ghost Inside
Dear Youth
Epitaph Records
Metalcore, fairly brutal with a good driving low-end focusing more on the hardcore part of things, but then of course, we get to the chorus and it’s a bit more “catchy”  but what’s good, is that it doesn’t get to that winey blah blah crap.

These Are They
At The Feast Of Seven Funerals
The End Records
A grindy death metal or maybe just some good fast thrashy death metal (with nice clean production)… a side project of sorts of some current and former guys from November’s Doom.

Bloodbath (Full Length Will Be Uploaded 11.17.2014)
Grand Morbid Funeral
Peaceville Records
Classic death metal done right from this supergroup.  First album with the guy from Paradise Lost on vocals… and, yup, it’s still great.

Soulburn
The Suffocating Darkness
Century Media
Blackened death metal, actually it’s more on the black metal side of things. Cold guitar throughout, a nice evil feel.

Thanatos
Global Purification
Century Media
Dutch thrashy brutal death metal, lots of great riffs, catchy stuff, some melodic stuff and always brutal.

Orcultus
Black Rust TAPE
Forever Plagued
Crappy production black metal. Not so much crappy, but just pretty quiet and it’s your basic classic black metal.

Hands of Orlac
Figli Del Crepuscolo
Horror Records
A throwback doomy 70’s metal thing with female vocals. Cool catchy riffs, vocals have a bit of a creepy vibe to them.  pretty cool stuff for the throwback genre here.

Kolony
Sledge
Self-Release (Asher)
Some prog metal with a little bit of a thrash tendency.  Good stuff.

The Deathtrip
Deep Drone Master
Svart Records
Classic black metal sounding stuff.  A bit slow and doomy, vocals are more shout/growled than that black metal scream/growl.

Various Artist
Christmas Carnage 2014
Indie Recordings
A good compilation of what Inide Recordings has to offer lately.  (it’s good stuff)

Manimalism
Manimalism
Adversum
Doomy goth stoner metal.

Kult Ofenzivy
Nauky ruznic LP
Iron Bonehead
Fast, intense black metal.  Unfortunately, the 5 “songs” are all mushed together into one file/track, so it’s tough to skip around or pick a specific track.  But damn, it sure sounds evil.

When Cities Sleep
What Lies Lay Between Us
Indianola Records
Electronic-ish modern “post hardcore” “metal”  There’s a cool heavy vibe, but a pop music vibe too.  My ears are confused.

DIMENSION
Revolution
Nightmare Records
Always great to get something new from Nightmare records.  this is some quality prog metal.  Production could be a bit more crisp, but this is some cool proggy metal with a little bit of a power metal thing going on.

Idol of Fear
All Sights Affixed, Ablaze
Melodic death type stuff, maybe with a bit more a doom sound or maybe a blackened doom.

CUFF
Transient Suffering Through the Ergosphere
Gore House Productions
Very unique vocals… almost a bit like Oderus, but kinda sounds like someone just vocalizing belches.  Thrashy death metal music.

USNEA
Random Cosmic Violence (NA Promo)
Relapse Records
Long             Slow                 Doomy                        Yawn.

BROUGHTON’S RULES
Anechoic Horizon (NA Promo)
Relapse Records
Some more melodic atmospheric stoner doom featuring former and current members of Don Caballero.  eh.

ANATOMY OF HABIT
Ciphers + Axioms (NA Promo)
Relapse Records
A Trifeca of yawny doom metal from Relapse this week.

Evil Spirit
Cauldron Messiah
Horror Records
Sort of a black n roll… black metal, yet some hard rock n roll going on too.  Big meaty riffs along with black metal stuff too.

Siriun
In Chaos We Trust
Self Released
Yet another band with Kevin Talley behind the kit.  This time it’s for a Brazilian band.  Great thrashy death metal band. Yeah, there’s a little bit of a tribal/sepultura sound going on, but it’s a good, well produced self released album.